Author: Richard Edwards

After a Bye in Round 1, the UC Vikings started their 2015 Buildcorp NRC season with a powerful display, beating NSW Country 37-13. The match was played before an enthusiastic and appreciative crowd of over 2,000 on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Sydney’s Woollahra Oval. It was clear from the warm-up that the potentially stronger UC Vikings roster would provide a significant challenge for the skillful but smaller Country team. From the kick-off, both teams took a while to find their rhythm and the highlight of the opening exchanges was a powerful surge from Viking’s 13, Nigel Ah Wong, who…

Only two rounds remain in the 2015 AAGPS Rugby competition. Joey’s Round 8 win over the Stanmore lads has seen the Scots boys reNEW their quest for the top position. Pythagoras would remind us that Joeys are still mathematically part of the premiership triangle. View and Kings are now playing for pride, in consecutive weeks, against the Bellevue Hills lions. And the Shoremen from SCEGs would now be thinking more about shore dumps and SKEGs with summer approaching. This week, Azzuri explains the deeply rooted connection between the Hunters Hill match up and the birth of Rugby. Gary Owen III…

The 7 to 8 segue The results from Round 7 of the GPS were largely in line with expectations, although the margins in two matches where greater than many had predicted. The match of the round Scots won 34-29 in a Bellevue Hill cliffhanger that Sly Stallone would have been proud of. According to Crackerjack, the winning try with extras was scored with only two sphincter puckering minutes remaining. The blow-outs As Azzuri predicted, the ‘Wyvern’s Spawn’ from Stanmore did sharpen their talons and file their fangs. By curtains, they had well and truly de-throned the ‘Kings’ with a resounding…

As expected, last week’s matches were filled with more drama than an episode of Wentworth. The thrillers at Stanmore and Lane Cove were enough to made Jacko moonwalk in Neverland one more time. Newington remain on the table top and it would appear that even Selleys couldn’t seal the gap between the top and bottom three from this point forward. So what’s in store for this weekend? Rich_E reckons: Scots by 10 with the home ground advantage the difference. Newington by 3 with the result determined in the final minutes like many of their recent games. View by 20…